Judge rules against Muslim girl, 12, over veil in school

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A girl aged 12 yesterday lost her fight to be allowed to wear a full-face veil in class when a High Court judge backed her school’s decision to ban it.

The Muslim girl’s lawyers had argued that the school’s actions were irrational and infringed her human rights, after it had allowed her older sisters to wear the niqab for nine years.

But Mr Justice Silber ruled that the Buckinghamshire school’s veil ban was “proportionate” for security reasons, that it upheld uniform policy, prevented others coming under pressure to wear it and because the veil stopped teachers from relating well to